Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1008

Collection	Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number	Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1008
Publication Number	O.Eleph. DAIK 281
Current Location	Elephantine, excavation magazine DAI
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	partly published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	(not relevant)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 0 and 0
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(not relevant) Certainty: high

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Complete. XXXX
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Script, additional A	Greek
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Language, additional A	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	Greek: documentary, ptolemaic, written with brush, hand of Petepiphis
Comments on Text Layout	XXXX Text layout currently unknown.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Eskasothes, son of Komoapis Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis
Text Types	documentary documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Eskasothes, son of Nechethor, is confirmed by Eskasothes, son of Komoapis, of having paid the rate for the salt tax for the 30th regnal year of Ptolemaios II Philadelphos the amount of 1/4 kite. Greek subscript: through Petepiphis
Relationship of Texts (bilingual)	Greek subscription with mentioning of the tax farmer.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok demotic text new
Multilingualism	Script = Language Bilingual
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

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1	¹Transcription and translation of the Demotic part by Jan Moje.ı͗n Ns-pꜣ-(qꜣy-)šw.ty sꜣ Nḫt.ṱ-Ḥr ḥḏ qd ¼
2	n ḥḏ n ḥmꜣ n ḥsb.t 30 n-ḏr.t Ns-pꜣ-(qꜣy-)šw.ty n ḥsb.t 31
3	ı͗bd 1 ꜣḫ.t sw 14 sẖ Pꜣ-ḥtr (sꜣ) Ḥr-tꜣy=f-nḫṱ
4	διὰ Πετεπίφιος

¹ Transcription and translation of the Demotic part by Jan Moje.

convex

1	Thus has brought Eskasothes, son of Nekhethor ¼ silver kite
2	for the salt tax for the 30th regnal year. Issued by Eskasothes in the 31st regnal year,
3	14th of Thoth. [_] Countersigned by Phatres, son of Hartophnachtnes. .
4	Through Petepiphis.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
27735	man	Eskasothes, son of Nechthor	Ns-pꜣ-(qꜣy-)šw.ty sꜣ Nḫt.ṱ-Ḥr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	31	Thoth	14	-254 November 8 BCE	Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Dating by Greek palaeography. ;

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DatasetID	307435
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	74472
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.eleph.wagner;1;281
Author	Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307435 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 1008), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).